MILITARY INFORMATION FROM DESSAU-ROSSLAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000640008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
I COtJNTI E.Nt Geri-any
Yilita y Information from . s u-Rosalau
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OITAINED
REFFRENCES_
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REMARKS_
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1. At 11:30 a.m. on 27 February 1954, 8 trucks occupied by troops t
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At 5 p.m. on 28 Feb t?uary, 14 trucks., occupied by troops a~.d towing 1 : x 37 mi
A.A. guns; 2 field kitchens 1 repair shop track and I water tank truck left
Rosslau toward DessauT~ -1
the installation continued, with firing actices, i:icludin advanced combat
practice firing; and training on obstacles, being observed
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movers, 16 to 18 trucks ?and 9 b xcar. 25X1
occupied by troops was seen an route toward ssau.
4. On 5 and 6 March, the barracks installations (31+01) in Rossisu were occupied
by an estimated 3,500 troops, mainly tank units and including AT and AAA units.
The intensive training previously observed outside the installation, expecially
with the tank units, had considerably decreased. Only individual T-34/85 tanks,
left the installation toward Gross--Kuehnau. Training within
uns left Rosslau toward I eesau.
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A a nut ?4 p m on the same a a s +en of 12 x .-rrri ouz3s i 2 -rim
The -arO.t returned
3. At 12:30 p.m. on 4 March 14 trucks, occupied b troops, towing 1 , x 37--mm AA
at 7:15 p.m. on 3 March.
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5. Z During the last days of observation, individual groups of engineers engaged
In reconditioning of quarters at the water training sites Louth. of the
Ilra Brach flax play-it. The say il.l at the water training site southeast of
Rosslau v -as again in operation. Engineer trucks carrying iaeem 7 and logs went
y'rorr there toward the water tr ._e.ning site south of Braxibach. 4
Camp Grass (uehnau was occupied by only a
guar eTa' l wearing red-bordered slack epaulets.
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7. In the afternoon on 6 Yarch, Camp Gross Ituehnau was apparentl. r being
vacated,
with billeting equi. ent b , jE; shipped aray by several trucks.-
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force from the Zerbst airfield.
o Ctubk of which i.s stationed in Kochstedt.
:n AAA unit of the air
units of the 62d LM.A Div
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3n orma ?jon on .eereaa e -raining activities or tank units is correct.
According to other reports, nwevous tank r i_ts of the division ewe re at
Lotzling Tisath for firing practices fror< raid Fohr a3y to early March.
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